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Procurement

About: Procurement is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 25669 publications have been published within this topic receiving 334145 citations.


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TL;DR: In this article, Choi et al. showed that politicians can increase the amount of government resources allocated through their social networks to the benefit of private firms connected to these networks, and that contracts allocated to connected private firms are executed systematically worse and exhibit more frequent cost increases through renegotiations.
Abstract: Exploiting a unique institutional setting in Korea, this paper documents that politicians can increase the amount of government resources allocated through their social networks to the benefit of private firms connected to these networks. After winning the election, the new president appoints members of his networks as CEOs of state‐owned firms that act as intermediaries in allocating government contracts to private firms. In turn, these state firms allocate significantly more procurement contracts to private firms with a CEO from the same network. Contracts allocated to connected private firms are executed systematically worse and exhibit more frequent cost increases through renegotiations.

104 citations

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Charles Kenny1
TL;DR: The construction industry accounts for about one-third of gross capital formation as mentioned in this paper, and this is where the major impact of corruption is felt. But the impact of corrupt practices goes beyond bribe payments to poor quality construction of infrastructure with low economic returns alongside low funding for maintenance.
Abstract: The construction industry accounts for about one-third of gross capital formation Governments have major roles as clients, regulators, and owners of construction companies The industry is consistently ranked as one of the most corrupt: large payments to gain or alter contracts and circumvent regulations are common The impact of corruption goes beyond bribe payments to poor quality construction of infrastructure with low economic returns alongside low funding for maintenance-and this is where the major impact of corruption is felt Regulation of the sector is necessary, but simplicity, transparency, enforcement, and a focus on the outcomes of poor construction are likely to have a larger impact than voluminous but poorly enforced regulation of the construction process Where government is the client, attempts to counter corruption need to begin at the level of planning and budgeting Output-based and community-driven approaches show some promise as tools to reduce corruption At the same time they will need to be complimented by a range of other interventions including publication of procurement documents, independent and community oversight, physical audit, and public-private anticorruption partnerships

104 citations

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TL;DR: In this article, a multi-attribute e-auction mechanism is proposed for auctioning multiple units of a good, primarily in B2B transactions, which can be used in various types of forward and reverse auctions/RFQs (Request for Quote).

104 citations

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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors analyze a central authority's policies against such discrimination given a situation in which a government has private information on product quality, and the competing firms have private information of their own costs.

104 citations

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TL;DR: Analysis of the value m-business can provide for firms through the analysis of the post-adoption stages of usage and value of mobile business from an organizational perspective indicates that m- business usage has a positive and significant relationship with m- Business value.
Abstract: Mobile technologies have increasingly become an integral part of individuals’ work and personal lives. Although research exists in this domain, most of it focuses on the customer’s adoption factors rather than assessing the value or the impact of mobile business (m-business) usage on firms. The present study fills this gap in the literature through the analysis of the value m-business can provide for firms. The Technology-Organization-Environment framework, Diffusion of Innovation theory and Resource-Based theory ground this research’s conceptual model for assessing the post-adoption stages of usage and value of mobile business from an organizational perspective. The value of m-business includes the impact on marketing and sales, internal operations, and procurement. This research uses a mixed method research design; interviews are first conducted to develop a model to assess m-business usage, and survey data collected from 180 Portuguese organizations is then used to test the proposed model. The results indicate that seven of the nine proposed antecedents of m-business usage are significant, and that m-business usage has a positive and significant relationship with m-business value. Furthermore, the three dimensions of value (marketing and sales, internal operations, and procurement) are significant, but only two of them have direct positive impacts on firm performance. Implications of these findings for practice and research are discussed.

104 citations


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No. of papers in the topic in previous years
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20231,696
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20201,363
20191,503
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